algebraic function
noun1
Algebraic geometry, Geometry, Mathematics, Sciences Informally, any function expressible using (only) the operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication, division and raising to a rational power; more precisely, any continuous function definable as the root of some polynomial equation.
- Quite often, algebraic functions are algebraic expressions using a finite number of terms and involving only the algebraic operations addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and raising to a fractional power. Some algebraic functions, however, cannot be expressed by such finite expressions.
- The value of an algebraic function at an algebraic number is always an algebraic number.
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- 1989, Manuel Bronstein, An Algorithm for the Integration of Elementary Functions, James H. Davenport (editor), EUROCAL '87: European Conference on Computer Algebra, Proceedings, Springer, LNCS 378, page 491, Trager (1984) recently gave a new algorithm for the indefinite integration of algebraic functions.
- 1992, A. A. Goldberg, V. A. Pyana, Uniqueness Theorems for Algebraic Functions, A. B. Sossinsky (translation editor), Boris Yakovlevich Levin (editor), Entire and Subharmonic Functions, American Mathematical Society, page 199, It is known that the algebraic function w=w(z) enables one to determine the polynomial P(z,w) up to a constant factor.
- 1993, Goro Kato (translator), Kenkichi Iwasawa, Algebraic Functions, American Mathematical Society, page xiv, Riemann provided a clear picture of many difficult topics. His most significant contribution, rather than his construction of a Riemann surface from an algebraic function, was to derive the existence of algebraic functions as he built his theory based on the concept of a Riemann surface.
- Related terms
- algebraic number, algebraic variety
- Coordinate terms
- transcendental function